Watch Award-Winning Films

The New Renaissance Film Festival (NRFF) truly loves inspiring stories and storytellers. This carefully chosen selection of videos are all award-winning independent shorts that have been screened at our Festivals. Audiences really enjoyed them, and we hope you will too.

SMOKE THAT TRAVELS

NRFF LONDON 2016 WINNER : BEST YOUNG TALENT DOCUMENTARY

Dir: Kayla Briët • Country: USA

13 min 03 sec • Documentary / Web / New Media
2016 Sundance Film Festival Ignite Fellow Kayla Briët explores preservation and loss of Native American culture and her own identity as Prairie Band Potawatomi in a personal documentary.

DARK LAUGH

NRFF LONDON 2016 WINNER: BEST LONDON FILM

Dir: Michael McCarthy• Country: UK

12 min 09 sec • Comedy / Action

Recently accepted into the Cannes Film Festival, Egg Man carries a magical, Teleporting YO-YO. Wannabe crook Hunter, Wants it! Caught in the middle is Dominik. All Running through London’s Soho Square! This fast-paced action comedy will make you laugh out loud.

Click here for an interview with Michael.

A CONSCIOUS DREAM

NRFF LONDON 2016 WINNER: BEST FILM OF THE WEEK

Dir: Federico Telerman and Nicolas Uboldi • Country: IT

19 min 26 sec • Documentary / Reality / Panorama

In March 2014 Photographic Museum of Humanity drove 6,000 km across Chile on the Museum Van. They crossed the Andes, reached the Pacific Ocean and passed through the Atacama Desert. This is a documentary about the people, moments and stories they met on their way.

Click here for an interview with producer Giuseppe Oliverio.

LAIKA STARDUST

NRFF LONDON 2016 WINNER: BEST INTERNATIONAL NARRATIVE

Dir: Antonin Bobò • Country: IT

15 min • Drama / Science Fiction

Laika Stardust is an experimental film set in the household of an upper class Italian family, in the not-too-distant future. Each family member is captivated by their use of technology, almost to the point of obsession. When the child becomes seriously ill, his mother begins to unravel and we discover the hidden truth behind her heartbreak…

Click here for an interview with Antonin.

SCRAP

NRFF LONDON 2016 WINNER: BEST YOUNG TALENT NARRATIVE

Dir: Joey Knox • Country: AUS

11 min 34 sec • Drama / Family ties / Coming-of-age

Raised in a junkyard commune, the arrival of newcomers forces a young girl to question the world her father has created. A moving coming-of-age story.